0 1/2 5th Avenue

also 11 Washington Square North, 8 Washington Square North, 12 Washington Square North | Greenwich Village | built 1932

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1832
Thomas Suffern builds a Greek Revival mansion at 11 Washington Square North
Thomas Suffern, a Belfast-born importer of Irish linens who had inherited his uncle's tobacco business, leased the lot from Sailors' Snug Harbor and completed a 31-foot-wide Greek Revival house here. It was faced in red brick and trimmed with white marble, with an Ionic portico and a cast-iron fence topped by palmettes. Suffern, a cousin of President Andrew Jackson and business mentor to Alexander T. Stewart, died in the house in 1869.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1939
Nos. 7 to 13 Washington Square North are gutted and rebuilt as one apartment building
In 1939 the Greek Revival mansions at Nos. 7 through 13 Washington Square North were hollowed out, with only their facades kept. Architects Scott & Prescott built a modern apartment building behind them, entered from Fifth Avenue, so the old front doors are mostly for show. Three years earlier, Sailors' Snug Harbor's refusal to renew the lease had forced Mary Livingston, whose family had held No. 11 for over a century, to leave.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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